Students will utilize primary sources in order to determine how women's lives changed after the ratification of the 19th ammendment. Sudents will also consider how age, social class, or skin color impacted women's roles and gains in society.
In this lesson from Teaching with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress “American Memory” Collection, students will be able to identify primary sources, recall events of the Woman’s Suffragist Movement (1910 – 1920), and identify where, when, and why the suffrage movement began. Students will be able to explain changing social conditions and the ideas of equality that led to the beginning of the woman suffrage movement, as well as identify individual subjects who campaigned for suffrage rights. Additionally, students will be able to describe and compare effective methods used by suffragists in the national movement and how they have affected current events.